The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1897, Page 3

e — i D A e "THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1897. STIMOLATED 10 QUICKER ACTION Legislators Read The Call's Review With Great Interest. Now They Realize That No Time Remains for Iile Argument. Speeches ‘to Be Limited to Fuv Minutes and en Urgency File Created. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb. 23.—As the result of the full review of the work of the Legislature for the first fifty days of the session, published in the CALL this morning, measures were taken to-day to expedite business in the Senate. The article in question acted as a decided n But ten days ot the sixty e for the session of the nd even thouch th aed two weeks, the CaLL indicated tbat fixed by st Legislature are time may ow ator Holloway started the movement He introduced a & for the creation of a special urgency tle. aipbabeticai order, was to be allowed to select his most important measure each day and place it on this file. The con- sideration ot these bills was to be the iness of the evening session, the meas- ures to be taken up alternately from the d bottom of the file. oway’s resoiution provided for this file being made up to-mcrrow, but he ac- cepted an amendment deferring such ac- tion until Monaay. Tue author of the resolution arzued that this course would bring all the best bills to the front, and that business would be greatly expediied Bulla spoke against the proposition. | He said if the resolution were adopted the general file would not agair. be reached at this session. It would also, be declared, result in bringing not the meritorious measures to the head of the file, but those which carry large appropriations, and ably more aebate followed, and the resolution was defeated, but is likely be adopted later on, as many who votea stitdid so simply because they be- d it was too early in the session to uch a measure. with a resolution providing after. fested, but after being amended o as to rate the five-minute rule on Mon- xt, instead of at once, the resolu- tion was adopted. 1tional amendments, joint reso- 1all measures carrying appros , according to Senate rules, must be consid ve days before adjourn- ment sine die, and no action looking to acjournment has yet been taken. The date of final adjournment must be fized | by a concurrent resolution, and at least tweive days’ notice of such’ adjournment must be given. Senator Smith will bring up the urgency file question again to-morrow mornine, | and there is every indication that it will then be settled in favor of creating an urgency bill. Ivwas conceded n all sides here tha sive resume of lee: valuable bit of enter- me of the expressions ve 10 i1z utenani-Governor Jeter—It is a his- tory of the work of ihe session. The idea is a good one. It callsthe attention of the people directly to the work of the ses- xion and places it before them in a way that I should think would be verv benefi- clal to the peonle of the State and mem- | bers of the Legislature. It showea the | latter the need of expediting matters Tte more the people can be informed of | what goes on here the more nearly can | the members come to serving them and ing out their wishes. lam satisfied t that1s the disposition of this Legis- lature. Senator Smith—THE CALL'S resume of islative work is both interesting ana valuacle. Itshowsina concise form the condition of all bills at the present time, This will enable the people throughout the State to ascertain which their sections are terested, and aid them action of their representatives accordingly. My greatest fear has been that the Lezis- lature might ensct too many laws. This is somewhat removed by the showing made in THE CALL, from which 1 observe that comparatively few bills are likely to reach fina: passage. Iam of the opinion that within a day or two the Senate wi!l begin 10 conciude its labors. enator Voorheis—It is a very good thing, as it presents the status of legisla- tion in a most intelligibie manner, and articularly in- prompt the * thus furnishes valuable information to the members, and mor. particalarly for their const tuents wio are not here. Benator Hollow; It gives an exceilent idea of the progress that has been made and what we huve yet to do 1o get away in 4 reasonable time. Senator Bulla—It s a valuable compila- tion of what has been done and places us all under obligations, The way tuings are rushed here none of us can tell just where we are, aud this gives us exactly the infor- mation we need. I think we owe THE CALL thanks in getting this up in such a com- Prehensive shape TERRIBLE FLOODS IN THE EAST. Great Loss of Life and Destruction of Property in Okio, Kentucky ant! Pennsylvan ia. CINCINNATI, Oxno, Feb. 23.—The Ohio River has been rising at the rate of 3 inches an hour since 11 A. . At 9 o’clock 50 feet 3 inches was the stage. Reports from all np-river points are that the heavy rains of the past twenty-four hours have left all tributaries overflowing banks and sending volumes into the Ohio, Unless there is a sharp freeze to stiffen the water-soaked ground it is estimated by river men that a sixty-foot stage is al- most certain. The great tobacco ware- houses in Front street are full of water to the first floor. At 10 o'clock to-night all the cellars on Arabella street,. Newport, from Southgate to Fourth street, were full of water and many residents were preparing to move ‘out. The Licking River has inundated the Queen City Jockey Club property at Wilders station, the track being almost covered with water. Water in the pits at the Lick rolling- mill has caused a shut-down and 250 bhands will be idle. The cropbs of the market gardeners at Cumminsville and Mill Creek Valley are probably destroyed. - .At 11 o'cleck te-night the water was Each Senator, in | tor Voorheis came to the rescue | that all | be limited to five minutes'here- | Some *little opposition was mani- | | committee was resumed to-day. the status of bills in | standing about five feet over the main tracks entering the Grand Central railroad depot, and a'l of the passenger trains of the following reilroads abandoned the depot: Baltimore2nd Ohio Southwestern, Ohio and M:ssissippi, Big Four and Queen and Crescent. The Chesapeake and Ohio and Louisville and Nashville, by reason of | their tracks being more elevated, will not be reached in the depot under sixty feet. The roads abandoning the Grand Central heve a temporary depot that will be used until the water subsides. A dispatech from Charleston, W. Va., s there is fully six feet of water in the Capitol yard. Every nowspaper in town is submerged. The elect ight and gas plants are both under water. A bureau | for the relief of the flood sufferers has | been opened. The water is falling, buta second rise is reported comiag. Business 1s suspended. At Bristol, Tenn., this morning, a flood poured down the valley, and but for the | blowing of alarm whistles saveral families would bave perished. The uamage 10 property will be heavy. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 23.—Streams in Kentucky are clear out of their banks and doing immeasurable damage. Several people have been drowned in various parts of the State. Much stock has been lost, fencing swept away and other prop- erty almost ruired. News comes from Pineville, Ky., that two white men while crossing a ragine | stream were drowned, and also a revenue officer, who was in the mountains looking afier moonshiners. In Berry, Knott, Letcher and Breathitt counties the flood is doing much damage. Jameson, the county seat of the latter county, is partly under water. At Middlesboro, a cloudburst deluged the locality arowning James Charwell, his wife and four children. At Harrodsbure, nesr Dixville, the water ran over the bridge. Patterson and wife attempted to cross. Mrs. Patterson | and the mule she was riding were carried away. The woman caught the limbs of a tree, balf a mile down the stream. The hnsband swam to her and got her out of the hmbs. Neighbors made a raft and reached them. The water washea Patterson off the rait. He was finally rescued in an unconscious condition and wiil die. Reports from Jackson and other places up the north fork say there has been con- | siderable loss of life and property. Mrs. Hutzelle and little daushter were drowned in their house, which was washed fror the mountainside in Breat- hitt County last night. Two men whose names could not be learned were drowned in one of the streams in Bell County. LOUISVILLE, K Feb. —The Ohio | River has risen 84 feet here since yester- day and it is suul rising at the rate of three inches an hour. Two-thirds of the town of Corbin is under water. The dam- age from the flood in southeastern Ken- tucky is $200,000. Near Donkeyville Jonas Tyree was caught in the Powell River and drowned. | Not a Dissenting Voice to the Retire- | dred and odd bills now pending. | Senate has passed a concurrent resoiution l'eial opinion was that the final adjourn- | days vefore the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight | owner in the Hardy Creek Lumber Com- | | pan | for five years secretaryand treasurer of PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 23.—Floods con- tinue throughout this section. The rivers | bave overflowed their banks, causing con- siderable damage. George Athey has been drowned. A number of catile have been lost. McKEESPORT, Pa., Feb. 23.—Both the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers | at this point bad overflowed their ban | and the streets and all the houses in the | lower poriion of the city are inundated. i‘ All the miils and factories in the flooded | gistrict are submerged, and operations are suspended. The situation is serious. The loss in this city alope is $200,000. | ATTEMPTIS TO JUSTIFY 1HE RAID. Rhodes Accuses President Kruger of Bre, His Promises. LONDON, , Feb. 23.—The examina- tion of Cecil Rhodes by a parliamentary Several | times Rhodes attempted to justify the raid | by cslling attention to the fact that Eng- land was now in full sympathy with the Cretans in seeking to obtain their civil | rights, whereas it was Britons who sought | civil rights in the Transvaal. Rhodes declarsd that President Kruger had | prcmised to grant popular rights, but had | failed to keep his promises. | agement and control of the same by the State, | field. (six and makes a dew apportionment all | mento did not want an agricultural dis- | | triet appropriation. EIGHTEEN DAYS MORE OF LIFE Both Branches of the State Legislature to Adjourn March 13 Assemb'yman San’ord Scores Milimen Who Abuse Their Employes. ment of Chief Crowley on a Pension. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 23.—When will the Legislature adjourn? isa question that is being anxiously asked by persons interested in the fate of the fifieen hun- The to adjourn without delay on March 4, and that resolution is now before the Assem- | bly Committee on Ways and Means. A large number of Assemblymen were inter- viewed this morning by a CALL correspon- dent and they said that while the subject had not been formally discussed, the gen- ment should be taken on March J3—four in Nevada. | As was announced exclusively in THE | Cavy this morning, Assembiyman Sanford of Mendocino rose to a question of privi- lege in reply to the charges made by cer- tain residents of Mendocino County and | published in last Sunday's Cari. His statement was the same asthat in to-day’s | issue, but he added concerning W. P. Mc- Faul, one of the protestants: ! ““Who is this W. P. McFaul? He is an | ; he is the Assessor of Mendocino County, and the experts found that he was $5000 short in his accounts and his | bondsmen had (0 makeitgood. E. C. Will- | isms, another of those protestants, was the Mendocino Lumber Company.” Sanford was applaud d by the gallery | and halt the members of the Assembly ! when be had concluded. Assemblymen Ennis and Sims of Sacra- mento trembled in their cane-bottomed rones when Arnerich’s Assembly bill 7 came up for consideration this even- | ing. The bill is entitled: An act entitled an act to form sgricultural districts, to provide for formation of agricul- | tural associations therein,and for the man- | with much vehemence that two years ago the country members had been bunkoed. “The nigger in this bill,’* he added, *is that Bacramento wants to say ‘we have no district fair appropriation, and we ought 10 have one for a State fair.” At the last session the country members were hoodwinked into voting for the State Fair appropriations when the Sacramento members knew that the Governor was going to veto those for the district fairs.” Shanahan denied that any of the dis- trict fair appropriations were used for horseracing. On the contrary, such use was prohibited by law. All the money appropriated went back to the farmers in the way of premiums for fruit ana the like. Hesaw no reason why the House should 1nsist on Sacramento taking some- thing that she did not want. Melick thought that at this time, when the people were cryving out for actual economy, to appropriate a large sum of money for such purposes among the dif- derent connties was an extravagance that should be stopped. District fairs were productive of no good. *In Los Angeles County,” he continued, “we know tbat we can raise better products than in any other part of the world, and we don’t need to bring them together.” Affairs were getting very warm about that time and Price :noved that the bill be referred to the Ways and Means Com- mittee with inatructions to report an amendment containing such amounts as may be considered best for the several agricuitural districts. It is expected that the Assembly will on to-morrow evening proceed to consider Melick’s Assembly bill 654 regulating pub- lications by State officers and commis- sioners, common councils, boards of writers or Supervisors in coun i ailowing hewspapers to justify by publish- ing a retraction of libelous statements made without malice. These bills are of more than ordinary interest to newspaper publishers and tue public generally. No. 654 defines a new paper of general circulation as & newspa- per which publishes general and local news. It was passed at the last session, but the Governor vetoed it becouse it pro- vided that such & newspaper should con- tain news transmitted by telegraph. As many of the country papers cannot afford to pay for wired words the bill was objec- tionable 1o the Governor. The word “tel- egraphic’’ has b-en omitted in the present bill, but en effort is being made in the lobby in the interest of lawyers to insert the word *legal’’ in the bill. Should this be done official adverusing muay be in- serted in jaw journals which by copying a few items of fureign and local news irom the morning papess may claim to be classed as newspapers of general circula- tion. When Senate biil 32 came up for third reading and final passuge this afternoon Dibble of San Francisco made an urgent plea for its passuge. He explained that the object of the bill was to do away with arbitrary asscssments by Assessors throughout the State, and enabling As- sessors to obtain statements from owners of real and personal proverty as 1o the quantity and value of their assessable property. Supervisors are prohibited from changing assessments. It will place on the assessment roll,”” conunued Mr. Din- ble, “'thirty or forty millions of property that has been escaping taxation for the past twenty years.”’ The bill was carriec before the Speaker had announced the result of the rolicall, but several members who had come in during the rolicall and who had voted and 1o repeal &li acts and parts of acts in con: flict with this aci. It will be remembered that at the last | session Governor Budd vetoed many ap- propriations for agricultural district as- | sociations with the result that district fairs Innguished, and the fat hog, the | woolly steep and the bloated pumpkin wasted their sweetness on the irrigated | The pres nt bill was introduced on behalt of the agriculturists of this State | who believe that under proper regulations agricultural district associations and fairs may be productive of much good. It de- creases the number of districts to thirty- | around. By request of the representa- | tives from Sacramento that county was | left out of the bill, the purpose being to | leave Sacramento at liberty to ask for an | appropriation for State fair purposes. A country member, sniffing the air sus- piciously, asked for the reason of the omission of Sacramento County from the bill. Price of Sonoma, the implacable foe of the meadow lark, reptied that Sacra- Melick of Los Angeles informed the As- | sembliy that Bacramento did not ask for | an apbropriation for a district falr because | she wanted to come in and ask for one for | the State fair. Belshaw of Contra Costa seemed to be wrought up over the matter, and declared | which range from $100 to $150 & month, year he was again elected to the City Council successful Democrats in a Republican county. Convention. tion of asphaltum and oil. For nearly a quarter other publications upon the subject of topic that § will receive more attention than has heretofore he might leave his oflice occasionally and enjoy. beach. STATE MINERALOGIST A. S., COOPER. {From a photograph by Taber. ] SACRAMENTO, CaL., Feb. 23.—A. §. Cooper oi Senta Barbara is the latest recipient of the gifts within the power of the execuiive to bestow, he having been to-day appointed by Governor Budd to the position of State Mineralogist, vice J. J. Craw/ford, term expired. The office carries a salary of $3000 a year, with a number of minor appointments, peying salaries For over twenty years Cooper has been a resident of Santa Barbars. He was County Surveyor for several terms, and has held municipal offices in the city of Santa Barbara. Last He was also a delegate 0 the Democratic State During the last decade he has devoted his attention exclusively to the study and examina- sphaltum, and to-day he has a library on this special aid to be the most complete of its kind in the world. As a long recognized authority and writer on asphaltum he is well known throughout fhe oil-bearing regions of Suuthern California. It mey naturaliy be expected that the ofl industry of this State, 8) favorably mentioned during the past year as a future resource of great value, Over thirty years ago Cooper, who, by the way, is not related to Elwood Cooper, the olive- oil maker of Saita Barbara, was the telegraph operator at those days and Cooper devised what was the original of the “line is busy; call again,” so thas by a large majority, and was one of the few of a century he has been collecting books and been given to it. nta Cruz. Messages were few in himselt with the other habitues of the ocean | aye on Diible’s statement that it was a bill to tax millionaires, changed their votes from aye to no when they saw on inspecting the file that Braunhart was the author. Malcolm, Cutter, Bettman, Belshaw, Leavitt, North of Alameda, Arnerich, Robinson and Dennery were the first to change their votes. The bill was refused final passage by 18 ayes and 39 noes. Sports will be pleased to learn that the Senate bills of Mahoney and Pedlar pro- hibiting glove contests were deniad final passage in the Assembly. The vote was almost uranimous. Toland gave notice of a motion to reconsider, but that’s all the good it will do him. The vote finally passing Senate bill 13, allowing Chief of Police Crowley to ratire on a pension, was a grand compliment to the Chiel. There were 54 ayes and no noes. FR A S AN SENATE AND ASSEMRBLY. Refusal to Keconsider the Rill Kelating to Mre. Stanford’s Begq: SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. — The Senate this morning refused to reconsider its action in passing the bill which per- mits Mrs. Steniord to bequeath all her property to the university. The following bills were passed: By Dickinson, providing for the inspection of dairies; by La Rue, relating to the sale of the interest of 8 ward in homestead prop- erty. Withington’s bill, amending the Civil Code relative to the answer of defendants in civil actions, was killed. This afterncon the Senate passed as amended the Assembly bill prohibiting the pledeing of candidates for public office except by the nominating convention; | also the Assembly bill accepting from the Veterans' Home Association the title of the Veterans' Home property in Napa. Assembly bill increasing the em ployes of the Supreme Court was amended by Withington, making the salaries as foi- lows: Phonozraphic reporters, $3000 and | $2400; secretaries, $2400 and $1200; bailiff, $1200, This increases the salary roll $300, Dibble’s bili making it a misdemeanor for proprietors of I'otels, bathhouses, ete., to refuse accommodations to persons irrespective of race was amended by Dick- inson making the defendant liabie in a ciyil action for damage-. Holloway introduced a resolution pro- viding for a special urgency file, nupon which each Senator be allowed to place one bill. Lost. Adjourned. The Senate to-nignt passed the follow- ing 8enate bilis: Permitting the sale of stock left in pasture or stables for pastur- age or feed; permitting the sale of water by muricipalities outside of corporation limits where there is an excess of supply; abolishing the office of quar- antine officer on the State Board of Health; providing for payment of debts owing by district agricultural societies; Braunhart's bill congcerning the water front of San Francisco; sppropriating $15,000 for placing boundary monuments for 400 miles north ot the Colorado River. The bill providing that attorneys’ f es in all cases of foreclosures of mortgages shail be taxed as costs to defendant was lost. The second reading file was taken up. ‘This morning’s session of the Assembly was devoted to a discussion of Arnerich’s bills appropriating money for disirict agricultural fairs anc¢ defining said dis- tricts. A resolution was offered to have the matter referred to_the Ways and Means Commistee to define the amounts to be riven to each district. The Assembly this afternoon passed the following Senate bills: Prohibit- ing the manufacture and sale of imi- tation and adulterated butter and cheese and providing a penalty therefor; providing for the election or appointment of separate Judges in the Superior Gourtof Yuba and Sutter counties; legalizing ac- knowledgment of instruments heretofore made before notaries, justices, etc. The report of the Committee on Con- tested Elections was taken up out of order. The report recommends the seat- ing of Kelsey instead of McLauren. Caminettt moved to recommit the case with instructions to the committee to sub- pena election officers and other witnesses. After consideravle debate, the matter was made a special order for to-morrow after- noon at 2o'clogk. _Adjourned. Death of the Noted Blondin. LONDON, Exg., Feb. 23.—Blondin, the celebrated tight-rope walker, who was the first person to .cross Niagara Falls on a tight Tope, which feat he performed on August 17, 1859, died from diabetes to-day at Eaiing, a suburb of London. e o REMOVAL—Dr. 8. W. Dennis, dentist, has re- The new State mineralogist has the reputation of being & great story-teller and has many | moyed from 115 Powell street to Parrott build- . select yarns credited to him. ing, 825-850 Market, over Emporium. .worth $12. NAKE NO MISTAKEN Come Before Too Late. IT MEANS Moneyin Your Pockst THE BALDWIY CLOTHIERS Bankrupt Sale! Never in the history of the clothing trade of San Fran- cisco has such bargains been offered. THINK OF IT! Good honest goods for less than the cost of the material. THIS IS NO DREAM. have some 300 Dress Suits which we guarantee all wool in handsome Scotch| tweeds. They are ~ worth $12.50. Our price '$5.95. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. A GREAT SUCCESS! Beyond our most sanguine expectations. Our goodsand our prices are our mouth- piece. By «calling at our mammoth establishment, which beyond- a question of doubt is the largest in this city, you will easily be con- vinced that all we assert is true. WE DEFY DULL TIMES! We defy any house in San Francisco to keep pace with us. We are selling goods for less money than other houses can buy them for. THESE ARE FACTS— UNDENIABLE FACTS. We have set the pace and mean to keep it up. Mothers, We can give you a good strong School Suit, that you’ll have to pay $2.50 for in any other store in town, for 95c. WhoCanBeat This? 200 dozen Boys Fine French Percale Blouse Waists, soft bosoms, large sailor col- lars, pretty patterns, worth 75¢. Our price 35c. They Can't Be Beat, We still have about 250 Men’s Fine All-wool Worsted | Dress Suits, warranted fast color. They are sold all over for $15. Our price $7.45. For Your Boy! We can give you an All- wool Josie or Reefer Suit, prettilv trimmed, worth and sold for $3, for $1.35. A Rib-Roaster! 500 Men’s’ All-wool Tweed | Pants, pretty patterns. They are worth and sold every- where for $3. A revelation. $1.15. Have You Seen Those Blue and Black Beaver Overcoats with velvet collars? They are dandies and are Our price $6.90. Youths' Suits! For a swell dresser. still have about 200 Young Men’s Fine Scotch Cheviot Suits, worth $7.50. Our price $4.95. We | 100 dozen Scotch Wool Underwear, all sizes, sold by everybody for goc. Our price 25c. TEIE 1 Baldwin Clothiers, 924 to 930 MARKET ST. (BALDWIN ANNEX), San Francisco. Country ordersTlll receive prompt and careful attention. TEE Baldwin Clothiers, 924 to 930 MARKET ST. (BALDWIN ANNEX), San Francisco. Country orders will receive prompt and careful attention. {924 to 930 MARKET ST. (BALDWIN ANNEX), San Francisco. Country orders will receive prompt and careful attention. POSOSTHSSLTTBTTOSU OBV CH OISV LTTHEK CIVIL SERVICE LAW A HUMBUG So Says Congressman Bai- ley From the Lone Star State. And Many Representatives, Re- gardless of Party, Agree With Him. H'ghly Interesting Discussion of the| Spoils System on the F.oor of the House WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—In the House to-day Fischer (R.) of New York | asked unanimous consent for considera- | tion of the bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to appoint Lieutenant Robert Platt commander 1n the navy, and ex- plained why it was desirable that the bill should be passed, he being the only officer in the navy who could not without special legislation be promoted. Objection was made, however, and the bill failed for the ! present. Hooker (R.) of New York was no more successful in his effort to pass a bill to | amend the river and harbor act of 1894, so as to permit the completion of the last of | the series of reservoirs at the head of the Mississippi River. Upon the statement of Fletcher (R.) of Minnesota, he did not think the failure to pass the bill would result in preventing the completion of the reservoirs. 3 Loud (R.) of California objected, saying that so far as it was possible for him 10 do so he intended to prevent further foolish- ness of the kind. Tire House then went into committee of the whole to further consider the naval appropriation bill. Barrett (R.) of Massachusetts offered an amendment to the bill providing for the construction of a drydock at the B: ton navy-yard not to cost more thana million dollars, and appropriating $100,000 to begin the work. Barrett, commentiny severely ' upon Navy Department views so far as they re- lated to lack of necessity for additional drydock systems at Boston, urged the necessity and expedfency alike of provid- ing ample docking faciiities. Without them the navy would be a fleeting show, fit for parades in time of peace, but for nothing in war. Doolittle (R.) of Washington, Tyler (D.) of Virginia and Boutelle (R.) of Maine re- plied to Barrett. Sulluway (R.) of New York made a point of order against Barrett's mo- tion that it was new legislation. In his opinion Boston was the worst place on the coast to build a drydock. If by any accident or providence of God a naval ves- -el should be got into the drydock, the only way it could be got out would be to take it apart, +hip the pieces to Ports- [laughter]. and after they had dug oat the mud and blasted out the rocks in the harbor so as'to make it safe for ordinary merchantmen to try to turn around there, he would unite with them in their efforts to get a drydock. Hilborn (R.) of California offered a sub- stitute provision authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to appoint a board of compe- tent officers to take the whole subject of drydocks into consideration and report. The substitute was rejected and Barrett's amendment was defeated. After some further debate the bill was reported to the Honse without amend- ment and passed without a division. The House entered again upon an era of requests for consideration of bills by unanimous consent, and under such con- sents several minor bills were passed. The rirst bill presented provoked an em- phatic and formal arraignment of the course of patronage upon Congressional service by Baily (D.) of Texas. It came from the Committee on Juliciary, re- ported by Broderick (R.) of Kansas,'and. | offered to amend section 1815, revised statutes, to give the Governors of Territo- Tles power to remove appointees by them- selves or their predecessors. 1t was advo- cated by Murphy (R.) of Arizona, who ex- plained the desirability of the proposed change. Bailey (D.) of Texas, a member of the Committee on Judiciary, opposed the bill, saying it was a partisan one and that it was one to enable the Governor of Arizona s00n to be appointed by the incoming Re- publican administration to remove Demo- cratic officials who under the law are en- titled to serve two years longer and put in Republicans. Catron (R.) of New Mexico favored the passage of the bill as did Flynn (R.)of Oklahoma, who asked that the Republi- cans be treated as they had treated the Democrats under like conditions. “Iam,” he said, *in favor of wiping out the civil-service laws and filling every office with Republicans.” [Avplause.] Grosvenor (R.) of Okio dia not seem to think that the Governors of the Terri- tories were entitled to any more power in making appointments than Presidents of the United States, and yet, he said, under the civil-service iaw in its development | the President could not take his sten- ographer, his typewriter oreven a messen- ger into the White House with him with- out the consent of this bureat, which had usurped all functions of the Government. “Iam in tavor of the bill, however,”” he said, “*because I believe it to be a step in the right direction. There is a tide rising in tuis country which will sweep this buresucracy from power. The young men propose 1o have something to say and to do about their countr; [Applause.] Grosvenor’s assertion about the power of the President to appoint employes Lo offices in the White House had heen made in connection with statements about other officials, who, he asserted, were also de- prived - of their confidential clerks or cashiers. He was responded to vigorously by Bro- sius (R.) of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Committee on Civil Service Reform, who said that the merit system was the best one by which young men could gain ad- mission into the public service. “It saved them the humiliation of becominz beggars at the feet of bosses who are subposed to have these favors to grant. They were saved the degradation of becoming the servile tools of politicians.” There was no objection, Brosius contin- ued, to the application of the merit system in re -ulating admission to the public ser- vice, but the scandal of the spoils system continued inside of the service, and if pro- motions could be made to depend upon merit alone there wouid be no objection to the system on the part of any one. Bailey. resuming the floor, proceeded to refer to the declarations of the Republican party upon the subject of civil service re- form, when he was interrupted by Steele (R.) of Indiana, who asked: “‘But whatdo you think of it yourself!” Bailey (impressively)—I think it is a bhumbug, sir. Faris (R.) of Indiana—Why didn’t you repeal the law, then. mouth, put then. together and then lagneh it upon the 63 feet of water that was there. [Lavghter.] He symparhized with the efforts of the people of Boston to make it & seaport ailey—Because we did not have sense enough. I think we will know better next time. [Laughter.] g An opportunity was given Brosius to the power of selecting even ) replv briefly to Grosvenor. He disclaimed in the first place thegentleman’s assertior. | that the faw was a Democratic law. It | was passed, he said, by a Republican | House, and for more than twenty-five | years the Republican conventions had vied with the Democratis conventions in | approval of the system. ‘“‘And when I | hear such sentiments as those,”” he ara- | matically exclaimed, “and notice the ap- | plause that comes from Republican repre- | sentatives manifesting their approval of those statements, I cannot but the* 1o is the flashing of the sword in the heart of | the President-elect. [Cries of ““Oh! Oh!""] | - He quoted from Major McKinley’a let~ | ter of acceptance of the Republican nomi- ation last year, in which he stated “The Republican party will take no back- | ward step on this question,” and adde “That is patriotism which found itsim- personation in that great citizen of Ohio who for the next four years will have the entire control of the executive service of the country.” After a short denunciation of the spoils system as practiced in Congress by Walker (R.) of Massachusetts, the previous ques- tion on the passage of the bill was ordered and the bill passed by a vote of 119 to 57, | apparently an almost strictly party vote. | "At5:15 p. M. the House adjourned untii | to-morrow. Bryan Not Wanted. HARTFORD, Coxx., Feb. 23.—The House to-day, by a vote of 55 to 31, passed a resolution inviting W. J. Bryan to visit the Capitol during his stay in this State, February 25 and 26. In the Senate the resolution was rejected by an emphatic aye and no vote. 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